DockNothing v1.0 Released

I just released my first Android application, called DockNothing. It’s a simple utility which does nothing when you put your Android device into a dock. For more info go to my DockNothing page.

Horror Movie Posters Wallpaper for Android

Here’s a wallpaper I threw together formatted for Android of a bunch of old horror movie posters.

Updated: Just a misspelling.

Fixing ADB Privilege Errors in Fedora

If you’re getting insufficient privilege errors from adb in Fedora, you can fix it by stopping the adb service and then restarting it as root. But this probably isn’t a preferable long-term fix. To fix this permanently add the following lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/09-android.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="22b8", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

Getting Android SDK up on Running on Fedora 13

When I first tried to run DDMS from the command line in Fedora 13 I got an error:
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: Not implemented [multiple displays] at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error ... blah blah blah

I then tried installing the Eclipse add-in and that failed as well with the following error:
missing org.eclipse.wst.sse.core ... blah blah blah

It turns out the update sites are not setup in Fedora 13 when you install Eclipse through yum. You have to add all the sites as well as the Android site under “Install New Software…” Here’s the sites you need:
Galileo – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
EPP Packages – http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/galileo
Eclipse Updates – http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5

How to turn the cell phone signal off on a Droid without Airplane mode

Sometimes you might want to turn off the phone and SMS abilities of your Droid without disabling GPS, Wifi or Bluetooth. The APN Toggle apps in the market just disable the data connection and not the phone connection. To do this you need to dial: *#*#4636#*#* to launch a Testing menu.

Then select ‘Phone information’

Scroll down a bit and there’s a ‘Turn off radio’ button

Word of warning. Be careful poking around in this menu and note that this setting isn’t saved after a reboot.

The Horror of Pacman Wallpaper

I found this awesome Pacman image here: http://i.imgur.com/p4QmX.jpg and tweaked it to come up with a wallpaper sized and formatted for my Droid.

The Horror of Pacman

Welcome to Andy Barilla’s Site!

I got my new site up and running.  I’ll be posting some android stuff here soon enough.  Stay tuned.